We knew it was just a matter of time before the 'dirty' chemical bomb came into play:
THE informant told MI5 that they did not have much time to stop another lethal terrorist attack on London.
The details he passed on were so precise and so terrifying that intelligence agents had to drop some of their other investigations to concentrate on what was supposedly happening behind the net curtains of a neat terraced house in an East London suburb.
The belief was that the authorities had only days to act. Surveillance had to be hastily organised, the police and other agencies had to be told, along with ministers, that this time the terrorists were expected to use chemicals and not explosives to murder their victims.
The nervous informant claimed to have seen the chemical vest that the terrorist would use, and while he didn’t understand how the device would work, he did pass on a description and the address where he saw it. The man also offered a list of names.
Some elements of the story he had to tell agents bordered on the incredible, but security sources said that they dared not ignore this alert.
The trouble was that Operation Volga was happening at a time when Britain’s security apparatus was already dangerously overstretched. Bruised by recent public criticism of their conduct over the July 7 bombings, the police, intelligence agencies and senior ministers have deliberately let slip the scale of the threat facing Britain so that the country has some idea of the growing menace of Islamic extremists.[...]
While there have been efforts to share more intelligence with allies, this new generation of terrorists are more discreet than their predecessors. They no longer gather at mosques, where clerics rant against Western governments, or congregate with known militants. Instead they prefer to set up their own youth clubs, using back rooms in their parents’ houses to devise their schemes.
Today’s terrorists are suburban men who neighbours invariably describe as “hard-working, respectable and British to the core”.
There was no time to conduct further surveillance, which suggests that the police believed a terrorist was close to launching an attack. The fear is that if chemicals were to be used then a likely target could be a train compartment on the London Underground.
Another theory is that a suicide attacker, wearing the vest could trigger the device in a crowded venue, such as a bar full of people watching an England World Cup match, as they will be next week. Stay tuned.
Of course the foiled terrorist plot in Canada which has world-wide links stretching across the globe including the U.S. is already being ridiculed by the ever diligent left who are claiming that we are engaging in "hysterical celebrations".
The post of course had to be linked to FISA , which has nothing whatsoever to do with the authorities in Canada monitoring international communications on the Internet or otherwise. But then that would be admitting that we are all delighted that the terrorists have been caught, now we cannot have that can we. Yeah right.
This is about as crazy as the Canadian Islamic Congress blaming the Canadian Government for the Muslim Jihadists plotting mass murder, whilst the U.K Muslim PR machine responds by calling for Muslims to rise against the tyranny being perpetrated against their youth in the name of combating terrorism. Eh?
UPDATE JUNE 6TH : The intelligence behind the raid seemed to have been wrong.
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